The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 31, 1903, Page 4

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SUDDEN FALL IN BANK CLEARINGS been monotoncus for a t was especially so last m all over the country ng, humdrum conditions. particularly noticeable it ne of bafik clearings, which ent in comparison with the 1902. The heaviest 4 per cent), loss where stock me since the last sharp drop Baltisnore, but the gain was very ¢ aggregate of clearings for to $1.645 reral weekly clearings years. 2,100,000,000; hence this pro- acts attention, .and the What causes t or diminished.foreign whatever the cause, d sharp, like the unex- eter or barometer, that watch a week or two. .Not for th happened to the bank ciear y of general trade shows nothing to decrease in the volum: ot by this shrinkage in the clear- nothing in the condition of the textile, metal or farm produce market, to account s as a rule are steady, but none re particularly active; the provision mar agging and slowly dechining, but ng on for some time; the textile Eaen been ¢ been g« mdustries are not as active as they were last year t of the mills and factories are long and report things in satisfac- iron and steel have quieted down ng ti.e past several months, but t is true, Lut mc working r c i ndi tory v considerab th re is mo d ness reported; farm produce is above the normal in price and moving off excel- lently, and cereals ceriainly cannot be called de- pressed. So t question is condensable to about t-vo cond ns: Either general tradc is of smaller volume or the decline in stock valuations in Wall street must be held accountable for the loss in cl~~rings. is probably the latter, as most of the decrease is shown by New York as mentioned above. New York reports the number of buyers in town from all over the country increasing, but this is a feature common to this time of the year. The railroads are still unable to supply cars enough to transport all the freight offered them with dis- patch, though the shortage is not as acute as it was last year. Some sections are reporting the fall demand for merchandise more backward than of late years. The failures for the week were 176, :inst 173 for the same week in 1902. Taken as a whole the commercial situation is sound, with no weak or disquieting conditions of any conse- quence apparent. The only cloud is the drop in the clearings. On this coast business seems to be more active than across the mountains. We are all busy out here. Our crops are not as large as we expected along in the spring, but with the exception of waeat, which will be more or less scarce again this year, they are large enough. The demand for Ze!1 and orchard products is excellent and grow- ing, and § number of farm staples, such as hops, dried fruits, hay, grains, etc., are advancing. Dairy produce is above the normal quotations, and the demand is so good that the market readily absorbs all the receipts as a rule. The leading seaports of t:e coast report a good export trade. .Real estate is attive and both city a~1 country properties are changin_ b-~nds briskly, at higher prices than have ruled for some years. Collections are up to the : ~erage, credits are good, tne banks are Liberally supplied with funds and failures are not numerous. There are fe.. if any complaints heard in mercan- tile ¢ arters and the farmers seem abundantly sat- isfied with their returrs. Times are good with us, whatever they may be elsewhere. decrease in specula- | the loss in the clear-| 29,000, by far | ESPITE the confusing and often contradic- tory nature of the reports from the Balkan | states, enough of truth emerges to justify | the belief that the time is near at hand when the | {lnng struggle of the Turk to maintain himself in : Europe will have to be abandoned and the empire {he now sways be given over to another power, or | divided among many. The prolonged disturbance throughout all parts { of the empire, in Asia Minor as well as in Europe, | discloses the fact that the Government has ceased {to exist in anything more than name. Turkey is | Fopularly supposed to be a despotism, the Govern- | ment is looked upon as a remorseless, cruel all | dominating power, crushing out the liberties of its subjects and dooming to death the populations of entire districts that fall under the rage of the tyrant. That supposition is erroneous. The very | reverse is the case. Turkey is not a despotism, but an anarchy. The disturbances in the empire arc due not to a tyranny, but to a lack of any law | whatever. The Government has no power suffi- | cient to restrain its own soldiers or to suppress the ‘rebels. The fighting and the massacres that follow | one another so fast and furnish to the news of the ['day so many atrocities are the results of a sus- ipcnsion of law, of the overthrow of authority and | the coliapse of government. | Were a despostism the cause of the evils in the | Balkans the world might look for better things by a mere change of the sovereign, or perhaps even of a minister, but being as it is the result of a weakness inherent in the empire itself, there seems no way of providing a remedy other than that of the erection at Constantinople of an en- tirely new Government. The situation in fact is something like that of | France under the reign of Louis XVI. Louis was supposed to be an absolute monarch, but as a mat- ter of fact his Government did not have powcr* enough to keep the peace in Paris. The streets | of the capital swarmed with robbers, even as the principal roads of the kingdom swarmed with high- waymen. Government was but a fiction. It was too weak to protect itself against even so much as a mob, and France went through her Reign of Terror not to overthrow a tyranny, but to save herself from anarchy. The Swuitan is charged with violating his prom- ises, but he is powerless to keep them. There is lawlessness everywhere. When his troops are or- | dered to keep the peace in a village they destroy {it, and when they are withdrawn from a district ! the population of Moslems and Christians immedi- ately begin to exterminate one another. It is use- less to attribute the blame to this side or to that, | for the one set of fighters is about as bad as the other. What is needed in the Balkans is not more lib- erty, but more law. The Government is violent in its action solely because it has not strength enough | to act c¢almly. It is cruel because it dares not be | merciful even if those who direct it were \\'iscl enough to understand the political value of mercy. Indeed the Government itself appears to be hzrdly} more responsible than the mobs who defy it, and | until a stronger Government is forthcoming the disorders and the daily record of atrocities will go on. France at the collapse of the old regime had a sufficient virtue to redeem her | from amarchy. Notwithstanding the effort of the banded despotisms of Europe to uphold the former | order of things she wrought out her salvation tri- umphantly as a free and independent nation. The | po; ‘of Turkey have no virtue. | | Divided in race, language and religion, with no national instinct er any common patriotism to hold | within herself such ations them together, they will convert their country into a desert by their burnings and théir slaughterings | anless some outside power interferes to establish order and maintain it. In the presence of so great a problem and so vast a work, the statesmen of | Europe naturally hesitate to intervene further than | to make remonstrances and ncw and then to de- mand damages. ‘That sort of interference, however, | does little or no good, for the remonstrances go | to a Government that is powerless to act with effi- | | ciency. Virtually the Ottoman empire has al eadyl | ceased to exist, and its formal sovereignty lingers | at Consta: .inople solely because no one as yet | | really wishes to overthrow it. To destroy it would | | be easy, but after the destruction there. would have to be reconstruction, and it is the lack of any clear | plan for achieving that which makes Europe pause | and restrain the hands of the leaders of insurrec- tion. Hawaii has determined that as far as manner is concerned she intends to adopt the voting system now in legal vogue in California. While this decision is an unquestioned compliment to us, simple justice | compels us to warn the island territory that she must not follow too closely our ideals expressed in the Echoicc of men we sometimes elect to public office. | EXPOSITION OF CHILD LIFE. S expositions a thought so happy it ought to { have been American. She purposes to open in one of the imperial palaces of that city an exposition to be known as “The Child’s World.” It is to be under the patronage of her Majesty the Dowager Empress Mary Fedorovna, and it is announced that it will be so comprehensive in its scope as to be of world-wide interest and usefulness. Consul General Lodygensky has asked the Ameri- can Institute of Social Service in New York to or- ganize an American committee to prepare an Ameri- can exhibition, and the institute has consented. A summary of the plan on which the exposition has been arranged says there will be a complete picture of child life from birth to school days, including nour- ishment, dress, instruction, amusement and physical and moral education. The exhibits are to be divided into five sections. Section I, on scientific teaching, will include exhibits of manuals, books, maps, tools, | pictures and other materials used for teaching chil- dren in all parts of the world; section II will be de- voted to the physical development of children and will include exhibits for the care of babes, their nour- ishment, hygiene before school age and also school- houses and school playgrounds; section III will be devoted to industrial exhibits, including the equip- ment of nurseries, clothing, toys and children’s games; T. PETERSBURG has had .upon the subject of ! ANARCHY IN THE BALKANS. | D 1 | sition of our own, for the idea is sufficiently good to 'him the game of poker. The offense of the black- | clear indications that despite the drawbacks under | white, and that a negro who has any business ca- | as the third negro merchant in Mississippi, told how section IV will include all exhibits of child life in the arts, while section V is to be the historic-ethno- graphical section, where there will be illustrations of historical events from the lives of child heroes, dis- coveries and inventions made by children, works and compositions by young artists and composers, and ethnological peculiarities in the lives of children of different nations. Ii the plans as projected be fully carried out, “The Child’s World” will doubtless prove itself one of the \ TIIE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1903. most interesting minor expositions that has ever yet been held. There is a wide variety in the hild life of the different races, and Russia is in a good position to gather exhibits from both Europe and Asia. Even America will doubtless be well represented. Per- haps in the near future we may have a similar expo- be worth following. S ——— 2 Four men were arrested in this city the other day for attempting primarily to rob a Grand Army man of his money and incidentally for seeking to teach guards would have been far less grievous had they simply stolen the old man’s money and left him in ignorance of a game that will be a menace to him for the rest of his day: THE NEGRO IN BUSINESS. HILE so much is being said of the more gloomy aspects of the negro problem and ¥ M v of the relations of the two races in the Southern States, it is highly gratifying to have such a presentation of the brighter side of the issue as was made by the recent convention at Nashville of the National Negro Business League. From first to last the proceedings of the convention appear to have been in the highest degree encouraging. The convention was well received by the white people of the city, the Legislature granted the Assembly Hall of the State Capitol as a place of meeting and a hearty and cordial welcome was given by the Mayor. Some of the statements made by the delegates give which he labors America is cvertheless a land of opportunity for the black m{; as well as for the pacity and energy does tot fail to find ample re- ward for his labors. It appears, moreover, accord- | ing to the statements of some of the speakers, that the opportunities are better in the South than in the Northern States, and several Northern negroes among the delegates expressed themselves as having been astonished to note how much of genuine good | feeling existed in Nashville between the better classes of whites and blacks. Some of the stories told of personal experience in business and of success resulting from thriit are in- teresting. Z. T. Evans, a mattress manufacturer, of New Orleans, said: “I started in business with $o0, working by hand, afterward with horsepower. Busi- ness prospered, and during the past year $25000 | passed through the bank. We employ twenty-five hands.” Edward Berry ef Athens, Ala., discussed the hotel business. He said that he was running a hotel for the people, not white or black, but for all the people. “Our guests,” said he, “are the best white people who come to the city of Athens.” L. Winters, a negro produce dealer, of Nashville, stated that during the past six months he had shipped $50,- oo0o worth of produce. Eugene S. Booze, who is rated he started in business some years ago with $7 In! addition to a successful business he now owns a build- ing worth $15000. R. R. Stiedson of Selma, Ala., started some years ago on a very small capital and i to-day has one of the largest and best-kept businesses among the colored men in his State. He reports the | friendly relations existing between the races in his city. “Conduct a business on a fair and legitimate basis,” said he, “and your patronage will come from the whites as well as from those of your own color.” It may be noted in this connection that there is published at Nashville one of the best organs of the | colored people in the country, the Palladium. The editor of that paper has steadfastly urged his people to profit by the opporturities of the race instead complaining of the dif- ficulties and antagonisms that confront them. In a recent issue of his paper he said: “The con- tinued agitation of the negro problem is doing the negro great harm. It is causing the white people to draw the color line in places where it was never drawn before.”™ He adds: “These conditions being caused by outside interference—that is, people at the North firing into the people at the South with no other object than to stir up strife between the sections and races. And, further, by a bagpipe element of negroes ‘who are calling conventions, passing resolutions, which engender bad feeling between the races. The negro ought to have sense | enough to know the bad effect of his hot air when squirted at white people. The hot-headed negro at- tempts to show in so many words what he would do with the white race if he had power; the white man in turn retaliates by showing the negro what he can do with the negro who is powerless to help himself, and away goes the few privileges we onge enjoyed.” The conclusions of the Palladium are strictly busi- ness. It says: “The power of money should be tested by the negro race instead of the power of a division of sentiment among the white race favorable to the negro. The money will stand by you when the divided sentiment will allow reading matter con- cerning the hanging of a negro to appear daily.” S ————— of are | In a spirit of envious emulation of California Arizona had - jail break a few days ago and loosed a band of desperadoes in the Territory. More wise than emulous, however, the authorities forgot th ITALY’S BATTLESHIPS EXCEL ALL OTHERS IN ARMAMENT AND IN SPEE D of any other navy. Twenty-two years ago Italy led all other navies in larger battleships of greater speed and heavier guns, and its vessels of ti.at class bullt up to the present time, while slightly di- minished in size, have increased in speed and general efficlency. In the Vittorio Emanuele III, now building, Italy will possess the best battleship afloat. Its calculated speed of twenty-two knots will exceed by three knots the fastest vessel of its class yet built in any navy, and its armor protection and battery will enable the ship to engage any other ves- sel of considerably greater tonnage with assurance of success. Three ships of this type are building, identical In all par- ticulars, the principal data of which are: Displacement, 12,624 tons; horsepower, 20,- lculated speed, 22 knots; main bat- . two 12-inch and twelve S-inch guns; armor belt, 9% inches to 4 inches; armor- ed deck, 4 inches; gun positions, armor 8 inches and 6 inches: normal coal, 1000 tons; estimated cost, $5,000,000. The five American battleships of the Connecticut class compare ‘as follows with the Itallan ships: Displacement, 16,000 tons; horse- power, 16.500; calculated speed, 18 knots; main battery, four 124nch, eight $-inch; twelve 7-inch; armor belt, 11 inches to 4 inches: armored deck, 1-inch, gun positions, armor 12 inches and 7 inches; rormal coal, 900 tons; estimated cost, $7,500,000. The battery of the American ships exceeds that of the Italian at the expense of speed and coai supply. It is not improbable, however, that the experience of the Indiana class may be repeated in the Connecticut type in allowing an undue preponderance of ordinance, thereby sacrificing other es- sentials of an efficient battleship. Colonel V. U. Cuniberti, chief construc- tor of the Italian navy, has outlined a design for a battleship which, 1f it should prove what is claimed for it, would be able to destroy all other ships that it might choose. This ship is to be of 17,000 tons, 24 knots speed, main battery of tweive 12-inch guns and a hull and gun protection of 12-inch armor. No details are given, even on paper, as to how this ambitious design is to be materialized. The dispiacement would accommodate the Dbattery and { armor, but the speed appears to be rather visionary. It would be possi- ble to get the requisite fine lines for high speed on a length of 460 feet, breadth of %0 feet and 27 feet mean draught, but the aggregate weights would far cxceed the intended displacement of 17,000 tons. The @ it @ PERSONAL MENTION. w. H. Falk, a mill man of Arcata, is at the Palace. Bishop W. H. Moreland of Sacramento is at the Occidental. Banker O. McHenry of Modesto is stop- ping at the Occidental. Henry Atwood, a mining man of Chico, is a guest at the Grand. E. H. Cox, a wealthy lumber man of Madera, is at the Palace. Robert H. Turner, a mining man of Nevada City, is at the Lick. Dr. C. T. Shaffer and wife of Kansas City are stopping at the Occidental. Gage E. Tarbell, a prominent insurance man of New York, and his wife are guests at the Palace. A. B. Booth, who is the head of a big lumber concern in Eugenia, Or., is among the latest arrivals at the Palace. Rev. H. V. 8. Myers and wife and daughter of New York, missionaries en glory we are having and promptly recaptured the escapes. l not shot, but only shot at, and escaped injury, thanks to bad marksmanship and none to the bad intentions of the assassin. The administration does well to make a naval demonstration to in- form the Sultan that we do not send Consuls to his empire to serve as tarcets for his subjects. It is well -Iso that we operate independently of the European powers, which are more specially con- cerned in the Mahometan problem. The hysterical demand that we insist upon Chris- tendom joining us to force the Turk out of Europe is made without knowledge of our system of gov- ernment or our international responsibility. The Turk fought his way into Europe, just as many Christian nations h-ve fought their way elsewhere, and with zs little regard for the consequences to others. The operations of Christendom in China do not leave 2 sufficiently wide margin to make room to spread our phylactery in its entirety. We have problems nearer home that need our attention. The Mahometan faith was spread by the swo-d. It was that kind of a faith. The de- man- that Christianity adopt the same plan leaves too little difference between the two for the com- fort of those who believe that the whole spirit of Christianity rins to the overcoming of evil with good, and suggests no other means for the spreaa of the faith of the Nazarene. POT-SHOTTING CONSULS. T turns out that our Vice Consul at Beirut was route to China, are registered at the Oc- cidental. John Barrett, the newly appointed United States Minister to Venezuela, who has been in the city for several days, leaves for the East to-day. D. E. Skinner, manager of the salt trust's interests in this city, is registered at the Palace, having returned from Los Angeles yesterday. He s on his way to Puget Sound. William Gosslin, who represents A. B. Hammond, the lumber magnate, in this city, has just returned from an extended trip through the Northwest and is regis- tered at the Palace. A letter received here yesterday stated that BE. H. Harriman of the Southern Pacific Company contemplates coming West about the middle of the present month. Rev. and Mrs. Robert Irwin, who have been doing missionary work in Siam for a number of years and have been spend- ing a few months’ vacation in this coun- try, arrived at the Occidental yesterday on their way to the Orient. —_———————— Treatment Comes Too Late. Dr. 8. Henning of Clovis, Cal.,, was sent to the McKanna Institute, 14 Geary street, for treatment on Saturday. He was so weak that no treatment was given him, but Dr. Armistead was called in. Hen- ning died yesterday and the Morgue was notified. Dr. Henning had recovered from an attack of typhoid fever, and while convalescing commenced to drink heavily. ——————————— ‘Townsend's California glace frults and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * —_—— Special information supplied daily to Il”rul‘gli;‘pln‘ BMD%‘ ’s), /-” c:?l. len’s), - fornia street. Telephone u.-m'w-. . including protective deck, 8000 tons: mor, 4000 tons; guns and ammunition, | 1500 tons: equipments, stores, officers and | crew, 80 tons. These weights aggregate 14,300 tons, leaving a margin of only 2700 | tons for machinery and coal. At least 1000 tons should be carried of the latter and thus only 1700 tons remains for ma- chinery. To obtain a speed of 24 knots would require not less than 40,000 horse- power, representing a weight of about 3500 tons. There is therefore a deficit of 1800 tons due to an effort at attaining a speed that is not required in such a formidably armed and protected battle- ship. . -0y Six battleships are to be laid down for | the Russian navy during the present year. They are enlargements and improvements of the Borodino type, 460 feet in lensth, 80 feet beam and 6000 tons displacement on a mean draught of 26 feet. Engines of 18,000 horsepower are calculated to give a speed of eighteen knots. The main bat- tery is composed of four twelve-inch and twelve elght-inch guns. Two of the ships are to be fitted with Belleville and two with Niclausse bollers, leaving two still undetermined as to type of boflers. The Russian fleet in the Black Sea is, | according to English accounts, in a high- ly inefficlent state. The annual naval maneuvers are repetitions of those carried out fifteen years ago, and the ships are in bad shape. The boilers of the battleship Rotislav are sald to be second-hand af- fairs, and the hulls of the Catharina II and Georgi Pobieddonosetz are claimed to be of such frail construction as to be unable to stand the strain of discharging their heavy guns. . . The Ti-inch gun of forty-five calibers, made by the Vickers Company, England, for the Chilean battleship La Libertad, was tested Jast month. The shell, weigh- ing 200 pounds, attained an initial velocity of 3003 feet per second with a charge of eighty-six pounds of cordite, exerting a muzzle energy of 12.570 foot tons. Its pen- etration is calculated to be eight inches of Krupp steel at 3000 yards, equal to that.of the United States’ latest naval gun of eight inches, which fires a projectile weighing 250 pounds. It is claimed for the Vickers gun that it can be fired at the rate of elght rounds per minute. Two British gunboats, Esk of 363 tons and Firebrand of 455 tons, were recently sold at auction at Hongkong. They had been stationed in China waters for over | twenty years and were no longer sea- worthy. Thefr hulls were composite, bullt | twenty-six years ago, yet the prices| brought were remarkably high, the Esk | being knocked for $10,300 and the Fire- brand for $16,000, indicating a good state | of preservation, notwithstanding their ad- vanced age. P aar e N The small town of Rostock, Germany, has proportionately the largest navy league club, the members of which num- ber 2175 out of a total population of bare- 1y 21,000. o + | | | | | \ o e —_—p BATTLESHIP POBIEDA (VICTORY), ONE OF THE MOST MODERN AND FORMIDABLE OF THE CZAR'S SHIPS OF WAR. THE VESSEL IS OF 12,674 TONS AND CARRIES FOUR 10-INCH, ELEVEN INCH. SIXTEEN 3-INCH AND NUMEROUS SMALLER GUNS. How i TALIAN naval constructors have | consolidated weights under the several i financial condition. The organization was | | shown more originality in the devel. | items constituting the compieted :;h:p‘ made by c'al!lng:l\ pu:hc mec(ln(.l Later . 2 would be a N ately as follows: Hull, | on concerts and other entertainments SEEEnl OEl Rk g iian thone 4 i g o ar- | still further popularized the Navy League. It is planned to have kinematograph ex- hibitions during the coming winter at the theater, as well as a series of lectures. These public entertainments answer the twofold purpose of amusement and in- etruction and account for the popularity of the German Navy League , and its branches In seaboard towns and interior districts. A cruiser named Hamburg was launch- ed at the Vulean yard, Stettin, July The vessel is one of three of the improved Gazelle type and class construction. The ships are copper sheathed, being intended for foreign station servic The data as given in Ueberall, the official publication of the Navy League, differ greatly from ey and other naval authori- tles, er are probably incorrect. According to Ueberall the Hamburg class is of 3200 tonms, 10,000 and twenty-two knots speed, arm- ament of ten 4.1- and four machine g er authority gives the size of the v s as 3000 tons, 2000 norsepower and a speed of twenty- two knots. 7The keel of the Hamburg was laid in August, 1 the ship is to be completed by ‘Fe 1904, Midshipman Dun fourth class at the been dismissed for age to be 19, whereas he was It was learned that had an N graduated from Yale in 1597 and was admitted to the bar in 1%1. Douglass was appointed from the eighteenth New York district a few weeks ago, and someone interested in having another candidate appointed f nished the damaging disclosures to the Navy Departmen Wh confronted with the charge Doug s admitte h truth and was promptly dismissed offense of understating the age has bee made in several instances and there were within the last ten years two officers re- tired with the rank of rear admirals who were from three to five years older than they claimed when entering the service, but Douglass was probably the oldest voungster at the academy. Trials of the battleship Maine will take place during the rly part of Septem- ber. The ship ha: laid up at the League Island Navy Yard since April 18 last undergoing extensive repairs to the damaged hull and boilers. The intention is to make short speed trials in Chesa- peake Bay to test her boilers, after which the ship will make a trip to San Juan, Porto Rico, to test her endurance, and finally the vessel is to go on a long cruise in order to fully establish the value of her kcilers. Four vessels now under construction are planned to be fitted with Niclausse boilers and upon the results of the Maine boilers depend their adoption or rejection in the other ships. Work on the new concrete drydock at the Norfolk Navy Yard is to be begun during September. It is to be 600 feet in length and is estimated to cost $1,100,000. Another of the same dimensions and cost It has been in existence about is to be built at the New York Navy elghteen months and is in a flourishing | Yard. _— Grand Opera Opens The grand opera season opens to-night at the Tivoli. You want to be properly attired for the occasion. suits at various prices and likewise make them to order. We have full dress How- ever, we want to call your particular attention to the opera crush hat which we sell for $6.00 It is made of fine. best quality silk. The shape is the latest. as the picture shows. All other stores about town are charging $8 for a hat like ours. guarantee every hat. Better come in and see them. We SNWO00D 740 Market Street